[TF2] sounds not working after 64bit update (windows 10)

[sauli01]

after playing for a while (3-4 games) console gets spammed with "total_channels == MAX_CHANNELS" and most of the audio doesn't play in game.

[KEDI103]

It locked to 2 speakers even you change it won't also when you reopen game back to 2 speakers...

[sauli01]

also more info about that.

the sounds that disappear are not the same sounds all the time. sometimes the sound plays and then like 3 seconds later when the same sound should play it does not. (reload sound being a good example of it.)

also seems to be at around 1 hour mark when the sounds start to disappear. starts off with just few sounds not playing but around 10 minutes after noticing a sound not playing like 80+% of the sounds just don't play

tried changing in game sound quality to high (from low that i used to have) and no change.

[sauli01]

oh yeah specific system information and launch options and such i have:

too lazy to get the files of my hit/killsounds as i doubt they really matter as it is basically all the audio that disappears instead of only hit/kill (that some of my friends have been saying that their hit/killsounds dont work). if needed can get them

tf2 hud (doubt this matters) https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/User:Eniere/Improved_Default_HUD

mastercomfig medium preset ( https://mastercomfig.com/app/ ) with customizations of decals_models=low sprays=on ragdolls=medium 3dsky=on hud_player_model=on outlines=high decals=medium and disable pyroland addon

steam launch options: -console -noborder +cl_spraydisable 0 -novid -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -particles 1 -precachefontchars -noquicktime

from sound settings: tried with 16bit 44100 Hz and with 24bit 192000 Hz (keeping it at the 24bit one by default)

too lazy to figure what is needed, just everything from system information copy-pasted (yes like half of this could be cut out): OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro N Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name DESKTOP-S0QR9F5 System Manufacturer Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. System Model MS-7B47 System Type x64-based PC System SKU Default string Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9600K CPU @ 3.70GHz, 3696 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 6 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 1.B2, 20.04.2021 SMBIOS Version 2.8 Embedded Controller Version 255.255 BIOS Mode Legacy BaseBoard Manufacturer Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. BaseBoard Product Z370 TOMAHAWK (MS-7B47) BaseBoard Version 1.0 Platform Role Desktop Secure Boot State Unsupported PCR7 Configuration Binding Not Possible Windows Directory C:\Windows System Directory C:\Windows\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.19041.3636" Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32,0 GB Total Physical Memory 31,9 GB Available Physical Memory 23,1 GB Total Virtual Memory 36,7 GB Available Virtual Memory 23,7 GB Page File Space 4,75 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Kernel DMA Protection Off Virtualization-based security Not enabled Device Encryption Support Reasons for failed automatic device encryption: TPM is not usable, PCR7 binding is not supported, Hardware Security Test Interface failed and device is not Modern Standby, Un-allowed DMA capable bus/device(s) detected, TPM is not usable Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes

gpu: gigabyte AORUS RTX 3080 GAMING BOX (rev. 1.0) (gpu removed from the egpu enclosure and is used as a normal gpu in pcie slot.

[Tiagoquix]

See if the problem is fixed after the latest update, which changed some things related to sounds.

[sauli01]

still not fixed after the latest update (didn't play for few days so couldn't test earlier). took around 25 minutes for sounds to die this time so the time window is not consistant at all

[KEDI103]

For me 2 channel locked problem gone. Now I can play 5+1 for hours no bug appeared on sound. Thank you Valve for fixing it